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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Use Case I: Payments and Finance . 1) Generalizable Payments .

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Global Mobile Internet Data Traffic To Explode 13-Fold By 2017: Cisco

YoungUpstarts

exabytes per month (or 134 exabytes annually) by 2017, according to he Cisco® Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. Or 134 times all the Internet Protocol traffic (fixed and mobile) generated in the year 2000. Average global mobile network speeds will increase seven-fold from 2012 (0.5

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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. Starting a tech company after this?

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. “Jake” Geleerd is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Ocean Tomo, the global Intellectual Capital Merchant BancT firm providing financial products and services related to intellectual property.

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

These corporate VC activities go hand in hand with other strategies of large companies including internal R&D, IP licensing, M&A, etc. . A startup can benefit in various ways from having a strategic investor involved in their company, but there are plenty of drawbacks too, both commonly known and more subtle.

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How To Survive And Profit From Radical Change

Duct Tape Marketing

So was the global futurist at HP and over a number of years, as we were restructuring the firm, we had to figure out what are the things we know will happen over the next decade, over the 2020s. That the life of the, in which you can monetize, uh, a new piece of IP shrinking. Jonathan Brill (05:00): Yeah.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. Investment in training, adherence to process, global knowledge sharing systems, quality control / partner reviews and campus recruitment programs that attracted the right talent. Double-down on great people, process & IP.

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